Kanada erlaubt Arbeitgebern auf dem Land, mehr ausländische Zeitarbeitskräfte einzustellen. Ökonomen halten das für einen Fehltritt

It’s fine if they’re picking fruit. It’s not fine if they’re working at Tim Hortons or Uber.

Just as long as we don’t pay people enough. That would be a disaster.

I was told Carney is different than Trudeau

I’m tired boss

If Canadians saw the conditions these people live in on these farms they wouldn’t say a word about “get rid of the TFWs!”

There’s definitely a place for TFW’s.

A lot of Rural farmlands have used the program successfully for decades with no issues. The reality is Canadians have never wanted to work fields and farms. I grew up in a Rural city in south-western Ontario my whole life and I recall even back when I was teenager no one was signing up for any farm work. The hours are awful, there’s no work-life balance and it has never paid enough to attract Canadians.

However the TFW is now at the point where we’ve got people working at Tim Hortons, McDonalds and other minimum wage jobs. These industries have become so reliant on essentially Slave Labor that their entire business model revolves around exploiting these people. To be honest, they’re also using these pathways to exploit Canada’s immigration system so both sides are guilty.

I moved to Prince Edward county from Toronto, originally Ottawa.

Nobody wants to be a field hand, as an actual observation.

They are being hired because they have to.

I even worked the books at one of the bigger, local wineries. If we could have hired an entirely local team, we would have. The supply of labor just isn’t there. Everybody local wants to serve or go into trades for more money, if they don’t just do unemployment dodging.

Because Canadians are just sooooo eager to pick fruit all day
/s

When it comes to agriculture, foreign workers have been used for decades.

The thing is it’s minimum wage to foreign workers but the employer had to cover transportation, lodging etc as well. Locals just get the minimum wage by comparison so it’s not really apples to apples.

I have several dairy farm clients using these programs now when it used to be more just the seasonal fresh produce farmers. They provide them with a house and a car on top of the wage which is actually a fair bit above minimum wage it’s a decent gig for them but it’s not really offered the same way to locals.

Big mistake.

Calling a misstep would be an understatement

This is good and l is exactly what the tfw program is for. They should be used for rural jobs that Canadians don’t want to work.

For all those complaining I highly doubt you’d want to work on a farm in the middle of nowhere…

On other hand the program shouldn’t be used by fast food companies in urban areas.

Picking strawberries was my first real job. The age range was vast, from me, who was just 18. To my dad who was in his early 60s. To literal school children.

It was an absolutely miserable job, not worth the pay and constant threat of being fired because I wasn’t „picking enough.“ Like yeah, I’m not going to put rotten, or half consumed/bug or slug infested strawberries in the basket. Which was exactly what they expected me to do, no quality control. I’m a half decent human being bruh, if you are going to fire me for that, I really don’t want to work for you anyway.

Didn’t get fired, but I’m glad it was only seasonal work. I made it till the end, but I’ll never do that job again. It isn’t worth the effort.

Maybe if it was for a different crop, sure, but never again for strawberries.

Point is, temp workers from other countries are cheap, they don’t complain like many here do, they are used to working in the heat if they are from more southern countries, etc. This policy makes some level of sense.